just watched it. It's George A. Romero's latest zombie movie, and this one goes back to the beginning of the zombie plague. It follows some film students who are making a crappy horror film and end up filming the beginning of the apocalypse as the recently deceaced begin to rise and kill the living.

The movie was made on a fairly low budget, because Romero wanted to go back to his independant roots. It is filmed in the style of The Blair Witch Project, so all of it is footage from the movie's world.


Anyway, it's a fairly good film, though the acting was lacking, and near the end Romero, while attempting to make fun of horror cliches, was a bit too overzealous and made me almost cry because of how terrible one scene was.

Aside from that scene and the poor acting, the movie is fairly good. However, Romero didn't do a good job making it seem like it was actually a real person filming like in Blair Witch and Cloverfield, so it seems at times like conventional cinematography.

The real treat on the DVD however is the 5 short films that won a contest on Myspace. The two most notable of these are "Deader living through Chemestry" which is about some tattoed druggy punks holed up in an apartment during a zombie epidemic, and my favorite, "& Teller", which stars Teller from the magic duo Penn & Teller, and is about Teller having to go on doing his show in Las Vegas after the dead begin to rise.

Any Penn & Teller fans here should at least rent the DVD for that, or maybe go on the internet and find it. It's brilliant.